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Contributors
CELIA COBB
(Opinion, page 23) teaches violin and viola, and is the director of Stringmoves, a string teaching scheme in Cambridge, UK. Together with Naomi Yandell, she has co-authored two resources for young beginner string players: the Take Your Bow series; and First and Further String Note Books.
BRIAN HODGES
(Books, page 101) is associate professor of cello at Boise State University and is the principal cellist of the Boise Baroque Chamber Orchestra. His new book, Cello Secrets: Over 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Cellist, is now available from Rowman & Litt lefield.
WENDY MAX
(Technique, page 84) studied teaching with Sheila Nelson and in 1987 inaugurated the First String Experience class at the Royal Academy of Music. She taught the Art of Teaching course there unti l her reti rement in 2008. She now teaches the cello to children privately and directs holiday strings courses.
YANN POULAIN
(Trade Secrets, page 66) graduated from the Newark School in 2001 and has been based in Montpellier, France, ever since. He has won many prizes for tone at competi ti ons such as those run by the Violin Society of America, F鳥 des Luthiers in Montpellier, and Violas in Paris.
KATHLEEN ROSS
(Musicians on camera, page 40) is a freelance cellist and music supervisor. She studied historical performance at the Royal Academy of Music with Jennifer Ward-Clarke, and subsequently set up Music in Vision, a music consultancy for visual media, based at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, UK.
JOHN YORK
(Rebecca Clarke, page 46) is a pianist and composer based in London. His concert work over four decades has mostly been with cellist Raphael Wallfisch and the piano duo York2 with Fiona York. Both these partnerships have an extensive, wide-ranging discography on Nimbus and Lyrita.